MOND and the seven dwarfs

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1995-03-14

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9503056v1

Astrophys.J. 455 (1995) 439

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

10 pages; Latex; requires aaspp.sty, attached at the end.

Scientific paper

10.1086/176592

Gerhard had recently analyzed the data on seven dwarf spheroidals, and concluded that these disagree with the predictions of MOND. We contend that this conclusion is anything but correct. With new data for three of the dwarfs the observations of all dwarfs are in compelling agreement with the predictions of MOND. Gerhard found MOND M/L values that fall around a few solar units, as expected if MOND is a valid alternative to dark matter. His sole cause for complaint was that some of his MOND M/L values were still outside the range of ``reasonable'' stellar values. This, we say, was easily attributable to uncertainties in the data, such as in the velocity dispersions, luminosities, core radii, etc., and in the assumptions that underlie the analysis, such as isotropic velocity distribution, light-distribution fits, etc.. There are now new, much improved determinations of the velocity dispersions for three of the dwarfs, in particular for the two dwarfs for which Gerhard found high MOND M/L values. In fact, within just the quoted errors on the velocity dispersions and the luminosities, the MOND M/L values for all seven dwarfs are now perfectly consistent with stellar values, with no need for dark matter.

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